Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The first hundred years; 2. Posidonius; 3. From Posidonius to Seneca; 4. Seneca the Younger; 5. Epictetus; 6. The Second Century CE.

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The most comprehensive collection of passages from later Stoic thinkers, providing fresh translations and up-to-date commentary.

About the Author

Brad Inwood is William Lampson Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Yale University. A fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has published widely on ancient Stoicism, first in 1985 with Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism and then with two books on Seneca the Younger: Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome (2003) and Seneca: Selected Philosophical Letters (2007). He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (Cambridge, 2003) and author of Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction (2018).